Concept

Enslaved persons - Emancipation

Images

  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone: African men wearing loincloths are pulling the carriage of a European man holding a rod. Lithograph, 1830.
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.

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